Grant Opportunities for Animal Organizations

About Our Investments

As one of the nation's largest funders of animal welfare causes, we are proud to support non-profit animal organizations that care for animals in need, fight pet cancer, and celebrate our Helping Hero therapy and working animals. We hold a responsibility to invest donor dollars in organizations that work to achieve our shared, lifesaving goals. As such we seek to support organizations that continually endeavor to achieve a high standard of doing more, and are determined to efficiently save as many lives as possible with our investment.

who we support

We offer support opportunities for organizations throughout the year. Organizations are invited to apply based on their organization type or primary purpose and mission. All requests for support should be submitted through our online application portal, Find your organization type below to learn more.

We are unable to support individuals, organizations outside the United States, or non-profit organizations whose primary mission is not related to companion animal welfare.

2019 Application Periods

*Pet Cancer Research & Treatment Organizations are by invitation only.All application periods close at 5PM PT/8PM ET on the final day.

Oct
15

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Jan
15

Innovation Showdown

Jan
1

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Jan
31

Intake Diversion and Spay Neuter Providers

Mar
15

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Apr
26

Helping Heroes, Service & Therapy Providers

Aug
1

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Sep
26

Animal Welfare Organizations

Aug
12

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Sep
23

Holiday Wishes

other opportunities

PCA Shelter Pet Cancer Treatment Fund

This grant opportunity is available to current, active Petco Foundation partners seeking assistance for a pet with cancer, either a pet in your care or one who has been adopted within the last six months.

Disaster ReliefSupport

Disaster relief support will be considered for organizations directly affected by natural disasters such as fires, floods, hurricanes and earthquakes as well as qualified first responders and disaster relief agencies.

community-wide adoption events

We sponsor community-wide adoption events that have a goal of more than 250 adoptions. These events are often held at a location other than a shelter, where multiple animal welfare organizations join together. Apply for up to three events within one application.

Unsung Heroes

The Petco Foundation is teaming up with Victoria Stilwell to honor Unsung Heroes across the nation for their extraordinary lifesaving efforts on behalf of animals. Each year, one of these honorees is awarded the national Unsung Hero award at the Petco Foundation Lifesaving Awards.

The Holiday Wishes campaign gives adopters the opportunity to share their stories of how their pet changes their life, and gives the animal welfare organization they adopted from a chance to win a grant of up to $100,000 from the Petco Foundation, in partnership with Petco.

The Innovation Showdown

Are you an animal welfare professional with an idea that could help change the landscape of animal welfare and save more lives? You will have the chance to compete for investments to make BIG things happen for animals!

application period details

Are you an animal welfare professional with an idea that could help change the landscape of animal welfare and save more lives? Ready to compete for thousands of dollars in funding to make BIG things happen for animals? Submit your idea to our "Innovation Showdown" and you could have the opportunity to make your lifesaving pitch in front of a distinguished panel of innovation investors at the HSUS Animal Care Expo. The application will be opening soon. The 2019 Application is closed

Each October in partnership with Merrick, we invite animal lovers to support the heroic and lifesaving work of service and therapy animals. Funds raised during this campaign support service and therapy animal organizations across the country.

We invite pet parents and animal lovers across the country to share stories about how adopting a pet changed their lives—all for the chance to give deserving animal welfare organizations an opportunity to receive grants from the Petco Foundation. The 2019 application period will be August 15, 2019, through September 30, 2019.

The Petco Foundation grant opportunity for organizations whose primary mission is spay and neuter welcomes organizations like spay and neuter clinics and community cat groups to apply under this application.

If the animal shelter and the spay and neuter clinic are operated by the same entity, with one Tax ID number, you should select one or the other and may not apply for both. Select the application period that bests matches your organization’s primary mission and purpose.